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The North Texas Chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional organization that provides information and networking opportunities to environmental professionals in the North Texas area.

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North Texas A&WMA
10925 Estate Lane, Suite 150
Dallas, Texas 75238

The Chapter sent delegations to both the Ft. Worth and Dallas Regional Science Fairs.   Our purpose is to award a certificate and $100 to one senior level and one junior level project at each fair.  We had a a lot of fun cruising the aisles of displays and talking to the kids.

Judging for the Dallas Fair was Saturday February 27 in the Centennial building at Fair Park.  Kimberly Hughes, Rupangi Faldu and I selected projects on wind power for both awards.  It appeared to be a hot topic at the fair!   The senior project explored the viability of a vertical turbine combined with solar panels on the vanes - very interesting.  The junior project studied the efficiency of various vane designs for a vertical turbine.

The Fort Worth Fair was Monday, March 1 at the Will Rogers - Amon Carter Exhibit Hall.   Susan and Ron Anderson, Cate Shaw, Ed McNutt and Larry Hale selected an energy saving device for school computer rooms as the Senior High School project winner.   Two young men designed a remote controlled device that they programmed to turn off an entire computer room/lab at their school, which saved the school ~ $2000 in energy costs in one year.  They found that because the computer room was shared by many, the computers were rarely turned off.   Their device could be programmed to be used by several different teachers or administrative personnel and they were even add a fingerprint security feature to it.  They had plans of offering their device to other schools, including colleges.  The equipment costs for their project was approximately $20.00.

The Junior High School Project winner was a student who studied the effects of exotic animal waste on soil.  The student went to Fossil Rim Wildlife Park near Granbury and collected waste from various animals, such as Rhinoceros and zebra, and compared them to cattle waste.  The student then tested various soil nutrient parameters and determined that the rhinoceros was the best fertilizer of the exotic animals.  This data may be useful since there are large amounts of animal waste generated from zoos and wildlife parks.   There was some great Bar-B-Q to boot!

    - Contributed by Larry Hale and Cate Shaw